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WRAMP Training and Outreach Plan. SFEI Contribution No. 1136. p 39.
2023. The goal of this Training and Outreach Plan is to increase the overall awareness and use of the WRAMP datasets and tools in support of wetland resource planning, management, and project performance tracking in California. Specifically, a near-term goal is to develop modular training sessions that can be linked together in different ways to customize how the datasets, monitoring methods, and online tools might be used for different purposes.
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West Valley Watershed Assessment 2018: Baseline Ecological Condition Assessment of Southwest San Francisco Bay Creeks in Santa Clara County; Calabazas, San Tomas Aquino, Saratoga, Sunnyvale East and West. . SFEI Contribution No. 944. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond.
2019. This report describes baseline information about the amount and distribution of aquatic resources, and evaluates the overall ecological conditions of streams using the California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM), for the West Valley watershed in Santa Clara County; consisting of Sunnyvale East and West Channels, Calabazas Creek, San Tomas Aquino and Saratoga creeks, and many smaller tributaries.
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Upper Pajaro River Watershed Condition Assessment 2015. Technical memorandum prepared for the Santa Clara Valley Water District - Priority D5 Project. SFEI Contribution No. 810. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA. p 60.
2016. In 2015 The Santa Clara Valley Water District and it's consultants conducted a watershed wide survey to characterize the distribution and abundance of the aquatic resources within the upper Pajaro River watershed wtihin Santa Clara County, CA based on available GIS datasets, and to assess the overall ecological condition of streams within the watershed based on a statistically based random sample design and the California Rapid Assessment Method for streams (CRAM).
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Third Summary Report Montezuma Wetlands Restoration Project Technical Review Team. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
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Surveillance for previously unmonitored organic contaminants in the San Francisco Estuary. Marine Pollution Bulletin 46 (9), 1102-10 . SFEI Contribution No. 469.
2003. Surveillance for previously unmonitored organic contaminants in the San Francisco Estuary. Marine Pollution Bulletin 46, 1102-1110.
2003. Surveillance for previously unmonitored organic contaminants in the San Francisco Estuary. Marine Pollution Bulletin 46, 1102-1110 . SFEI Contribution No. 295.
2003. Summary of 10 years of sediment toxicity monitoring for the San Francisco Estuary RMP. SFEI Contribution No. 281. San Francisco Estuary Institute.
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Statistical Design, Analysis, and Graphics for the Guadalupe River Watershed Assessment 2012. SFEI Contribution No. 687. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
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Spatial Patterns of Sediment Contaminant Mixtures in San Francisco Bay. SFEI Contribution No. 450.
2005. Sediment Quality Assessments in the San Francisco Estuary. SFEI Contribution No. 574. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, Ca.
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Sediment Contamination in San Leandro Bay, CA. SFEI Contribution No. 48. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
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Sediment Conditions near Wastewater Discharges in San Francisco Bay. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
1999. Science Support for the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program, SWRCB Agreement No. 03-200-250-0. SFEI Contribution No. 546. San Francisco Estuary Institute.
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Santa Rosa Plain Wetlands Profile: A Demonstration of the CaliforniaWetland and Riparian Area Monitoring Plan. SFEI Contribution No. 726. San Francisco Estuary Institute - Aquatic Science Center: Richmond, CA. p 46.
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Santa Clara County Five Watersheds Assessment: A Synthesis of Ecological Data Collection and Analysis Conducted by Valley Water. . SFEI Contribution No. 963. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond. CA. p 71.
2020. This report synthesizes the baseline assessments for Santa Clara County’s five watersheds to present similarities, differences, and compare ecological condition in streams across watersheds and their subregions, San Francisco Bay-Delta ecoregion, and statewide based on CRAM. It also interprets the assessment results and comparisons to identify risks to stream conditions, and opportunities for stream stewardship. Project D5’s baseline assessments establish a monitoring and assessment framework for evaluating the performance of Valley Water’s programs, projects, maintenance activities, and on-the-ground stewardship actions.
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San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) Annual Monitoring Results, 2002. SFEI Contribution No. 466. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
2004. San Francisco Estuary National Water Quality Monitoring Network Pilot Study Report. SFEI Contribution No. 548. p 70.
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RMP Sediment TIE Study 2007-2008: Using Toxicity Identification Evaluation (TIE)Methods to Investigate Causes of Sediment Toxicity to Amphipods. SFEI Contribution No. 561. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
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RMP Sediment Study 2009-2010 Determining Causes of Sediment Toxicity in the San Francisco Estuary. SFEI Contribution No. 626. UC-Davis, Marine Pollutions Studies Laboratory.
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Results of the Benthic Pilot Study 1994 - 1997, Part 1. SFEI Contribution No. 39. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
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Remote Sensing Recommendations for Tidal Wetland Indicators. SFEI Contribution No. 1047. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond. CA. p 31.
2021. This document presents potential products and methods for monitoring a suite of tidal wetland habitat indicators designated for the Montezuma Wetlands Project using remote sensing technology. This document can also serve as a starting place for the Technical Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) to develop a set of regional protocols for monitoring the same or similar habitat indicators.
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Relative sensitivities of toxicity test protocols with the amphipods Eohaustorius estuarius and Ampelisca abdita. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 69 (1), 24-31.
2007. Re-design Process of the San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances (RMP) Status & Trends Monitoring Component for Water and Sediment. SFEI Contribution No. 507. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
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Re-design Process of the San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances (RMP). SFEI Contribution No. 109. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
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Recommendations for Improvement of RMP Sediment Monitoring. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
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Quality Assurance Project Plan: Investigations of Sources and Effects of Pyrethroid Pesticides in Watersheds of the San Francisco Bay Estuary. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland.
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Project: Statistical Design, Analysis and Guidance on the Pajaro and Lower Peninsula Watershed Assessments. TASK 3: GRTS Survey Designs and Sample Draws Memorandum – Pajaro and Lower Peninsula Watersheds. SFEI Contribution No. 763.
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Prioritizing Candidate Green Infrastructure Sites within the City of Ukiah: A Demonstration of the Site Locator Tool of GreenPlan-IT. Report prepared for the City of Ukiah Department of Public Works under Supplemental Environmental Project # R1-018-0024. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond. CA.
2019. This report describes the application of GreenPlan-IT’s Site Locator Tool to identify and rank candidate GI installation sites within the City of Ukiah. The Site Locator Tool is the first (foundational) tool of the GreenPlan-IT toolkit, meaning that the outputs are required inputs for both the Hydrologic Modeling and Optimization tools. The Site Locator Tool addresses the question: where are the best locations for GI implementation based on local planning priorities?
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Potential biological indicators of contaminant effects for use in monitoring the San Francisco Estuary. SFEI Contribution No. 43. San Francisco Estuary Institute.
2001. Patterns and trends in sediment toxicity in the San Francisco Estuary. Environmental Research 105 (1), 145-155 . SFEI Contribution No. 496.
2007. Patterns and trends in sediment toxicity in the San Francisco Estuary. Environmental Research 105, 145-155.
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North Bay Mercury Biosentinel Project (December 2014 Report). SFEI Contribution No. 738. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
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MS4 2009 Permit Monitoring Results (2010-2015) Summary of Sonoma County Water Agency’s Data for two Sites in Santa Rosa Creek. SFEI Contribution No. 832. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond. CA. p 35.
2017. This memo summarizes the Sonoma County Water Agency's 2009 receiving water monthly monitoring results for the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board's NPDES Permit No. R1-2009-0050. The data were compiled, formatted and uploaded to SFEI’s Regional Data Center and are availble through CEDEN (https://ceden.waterboards.ca.gov/AdvancedQueryTool) under the Program Name "Russian River MS4 Program" and Project Names "2009 5 year Permit for RR_MS4 Program SCWA" and "2009 5 year Permit for RR_MS4 Program CSR". The memo summarizes field measures and water chemistry, bacteria, and toxiciity results from two receving waters sites in Santa Rosa Creek downstream (C1-SRC-D) and upstream of the City of Santa Rosa.
This memo was funded by a Suplemental Environmental Project (SEP) settlement of an enforcement action by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board against the County of Sonoma. 2016.
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Monitoring Plan Petaluma River Watershed Nutrient and Bacteria Impairment Study: Employing the Reachwide Benthos Method for Stream Algae Sampling and Additional Water Column Nutrient and Fecal Indicator Bacteria Measures. Aquatic Science Center: Oakland, CA.
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A Menu of Fire Response Water Quality Monitoring Options and Recommendations for Water Year 2019 and Beyond. SFEI Contribution No. 889. San Francisco Estuary Institute : Richmond, CA.
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McCosker Creek Restoration and Public Access Project: Alder Creek Daylighting Additional Monitoring Elements - Final Report. SFEI Contribution No. 1157. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
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Low levels of agreement among experts using best professional judgment to assess benthic condition in the San Francisco Estuary and Delta. Ecological Indicators 12 (1), 167-173 . SFEI Contribution No. 636.
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Lower Peninsula Watershed Condition Assessment 2016. Technical memorandum prepared for the Santa Clara Valley Water District - Priority D5 Project. SFEI Contribution No. 809. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA. p 49.
2016. In 2016 The Santa Clara Valley Water District and its consultants conducted a watershed wide survey to characterize the distribution and abundance of the aquatic resources within the Lower Peninsula watershed wtihin Santa Clara County, CA based on available GIS data, and to assess the overall ecological condition of streams within the watershed based on a statistically based, random sample design and the California Rapid Assessment Method for streams (CRAM).
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Lower Peninsula Watershed Condition Assessment 2016: Southwest San Francisco Bay, Santa Clara County, San Francisquito to Stevens Creeks. Technical memorandum prepared for the Santa Clara Valley Water District. . SFEI Contribution No. 809. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond. p 53.
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Long-term variation in concentrations and mass loads in a semi-arid watershed influenced by historic mercury mining and urban pollutant sources. Science of The Total Environment 605-606, 482-497 . SFEI Contribution No. 831.
2017. Impacts of Nonindigenous Species on Subtidal Benthic Assemblages in the San Francisco Estuary. SFEI Contribution No. 329. p 16.
1999. Framework to coordinate water quality improvement and wildlife habitat conservation to protect California streams, wetlands, and riparian areas.
2016. Project funded by an USEPA Wetland Program Development Grant (Region 9) #99T05901: Framework for Coordinated Assessment of CA Wildlife Habitat and Aquatic Resource Areas
. SFEI Contribution No. 776. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA. p 89.The emergence of comparable landscape approaches to wildlife conservation and water quality improvement through federal and California state regulatory and management programs provides an opportunity for their coordination to better protect California’s aquatic resources, especially streams, wetlands, and riparian areas. Such coordination is patently desirable. A framework has been developed to help coordinate restoration and compensatory mitigation across policies governing wildlife conservation and water quality in the landscape context. The framework is based on the Wetland and Riparian Area Monitoring Plan (WRAMP) of the California Wetland Monitoring Workgroup (CWMW) of the Water Quality Monitoring Council. The framework presented in this memorandum is a version of the standard WRAMP framework. It only differs from the standard framework to better accommodate wildlife conservation planning, assessment and reporting. To distinguish this version from the standard version, it is termed the 'WRAMP for wildlife'.
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Final Project Report: Investigations of Sources and Effects of Pyrethroid Pesticides in Watersheds of the San Francisco Estuary. SFEI Contribution No. 523. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland.
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Final Project Report for the Demonstration Project in Three Critical Coastal Area Watersheds. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
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Evaluation of Benthic Assessment Methodology in Southern California Bays and San Francisco Bay. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project: Westminster. CA.
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Estuary News RMP Insert 2006. Estuary News.
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Estuarine and scalar patterns of invasion in the soft-bottom benthic communities of the San Francisco Estuary. Biological Invasions 5, 85-102 . SFEI Contribution No. 292.
2003. Demonstration Watershed Assessment For the Tahoe Basin Using the Wetland & Riparian Area Monitoring Plan. SFEI Contribution No. 703. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
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Demonstration of a Watershed Approach to Wetland Restoration Planning for Load Reductions: A Pilot Demonstration Project Using GreenPlan-IT in the Santa Rosa Plain, Sonoma County, California. SFEI Contribution No. 996. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond. CA.
. 2017. This summary memorandum presents technical recommendations to the 401 Certification and Waste Discharge Program (401 Program) of the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) for a coherent, scientifically sound, repeatable, watershed approach to wetland restoration site evaluation, compliance monitoring and assessment, and Tracking. The recommendations are drawn from the previous four memoranda produced for the Pilot Demonstration Project (Project) that address the following subjects: project work plan and information flow diagram; scientific literature review; landscape scenario planning (to map and prioritize restoration opportunities); and a framework for a watershed-approach to evaluate and report the capacity of a wetland restoration site to protect wetland beneficial uses.
This Project focused on a sub-watershed of the Santa Rosa Plain, in Sonoma County, California. The area was chosen for the Project for three reasons: (1) it is integral to an existing nutrient TMDL and therefore is supported relatively well with hydrological and nutrient data; (2) the historical and existing wetlands and streams of the area were mapped recently in sufficient detail to inform landscape planning; and (3) implementation of the TMDL will involve wetland restoration to reduce downstream nutrient loads, and therefore the Project may help implement the TMDL.
The primary overall purpose of this Project was to explore how numerical simulation and statistical modeling could be combined with existing wetland assessment and reporting tools to create a coherent, watershed-based approach to wetland beneficial use protection. Any relevance to the existing nutrient TMDL for the demonstration area is an intentional, but secondary benefit of this Project.
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Creating Landscape Profiles of Aquatic Resource Abundance, Diversity and Condition. SFEI Contribution No. 725. San Francisco Estuary Institute - Aquatic Science Center: Richmond, CA. p 21.
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Coyote Creek Watershed Reassessment 2020 Ambient Stream Condition Survey Design and Monitoring Plan: A Review of the Original 2010 Survey Design and Development of the 2020 Reassessment Strategy. . SFEI Contribution No. 1055. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond. CA. p 18.
2020. This technical report describes the ten-year ambient stream condition reassessment survey design and monitoring plan (or strategy) for the Coyote Creek watershed. Because the reassessment employed (and modified) the 2010 sample draw, essential background information about the original 2010 probability-based survey design, sample draw, and field assessment outcomes were provided.
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Coyote Creek Watershed Reassessment 2020: 10-Year Reassessment of the Ecological Condition of Streams Applying the California Rapid Assessment Method, Santa Clara County, California. SFEI Contribution No. 1043. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond. CA. p 131.
2021. This report describes the amount and distribution of aquatic resources in the Coyote Creek watershed, Santa Clara County, California, and presents the first reassessment of stream ecosystem conditions using a watershed approach and the California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM). Field work was conducted in 2020, ten years after the baseline watershed assessment completed in 2010.
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Conceptual Framework and Rationale for the Exposure and Effects Pilot Study. SFEI Contribution No. 317. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland.
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CISNet San Pablo Bay Network of Environmental Stress Indicators; Benthic Microfauna. SFEI Contribution No. 299. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
2003. Causes of Sediment Toxicity to Mytilus galloprovincialis in San Francisco Bay, California. Archive of Environmental Contamination Toxicology 45, 486-491 . SFEI Contribution No. 296.
2003. Benthic macrofaunal assemblages of the San Francisco Estuary and Delta, USA. Environmental Monitoring Assessment.
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Assessment of Macrobenthos Response to Sediment Contamination in the San Francisco Estuary (published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23, 2178.
2004. Assessment of macrobenthos resonse to sediment contamination in the San Francisco Estuary, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23 . SFEI Contribution No. 60.
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Aquatic Pesticides Monitoring Program Quality Assurance Program Plan. SFEI Contribution No. 302.
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2001 Quality Assurance Project Plan: Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances. SFEI Contribution No. 33. San Francisco Estuary Institute.
2001. 1999 Quality Assurance Project Plan for the Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances. SFEI Contribution No. 373. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
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1999 Quality Assurance Project Plan. SFEI Contribution No. 33. San Francisco Esturary Institute: Oakland.
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